Tamsin Greig Discusses Not Giving Up On Acting After Drama School Rejections
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- This week Rob is joined by actor and comedian Tamsin Greig. They talk about meeting for the first time on the set of Black Books, the differences between working with scriptwriters and being given the freedom to improvise, and how Tamsin will always stick to her acting roots rather than moving to presenting. Tamsin also tells Rob all about finding herself in a West End musical having never sung before, and they also discuss their shared experience of being rejected by RADA!
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Nice. Thanks for this. Saturday just gone, I had a sezuire, so this cheers me up
I rewatched Green Wing during lockdown. literally nothing like it. Best ensemble comedy I've ever seen
I first came across Tamsin in Black Books and loved her character. I still remember the episode where she gets a delivery to her shop of a strange round thing the size of a volley ball with a little spigot pointing out of it. Nobody can figure out what it is but the episode ends with somebody showing how to work this arty-farty cigarette lighter. Her manic dippiness in Black Books was infectious.
She's got such a great, and distinctive, voice.
Wonderful to revisit. I'd completely forgotten the Bryden Black Books moment. The mock-cockney accent is priceless. The Fixer | Black Books | Series 2 Episode 3.
This is really heartening. I applied to drama schools and didn’t get into the big ones. In fact, Staffordshire university of all places, who are not exactly known for having a great drama department (it was a back up option because I’m local), rejected me and told me to give up because I apparently just didn’t have it and would never get anywhere in acting (he could not explain what ‘it’ is, either, claims he has an instinct). He told me to try working behind the camera. It hurt. But I ended up going to an actual theatre school. And I have an agent. And I’ve had acting work. Now it’s just a matter of finding the next step up.
Acting is the one thing I can say with confidence that I am good at. It’s the only thing I could ever imagine myself doing. There is no plan B. I love it, and I am good at it, and I will never give up.
Heartwarming story!
And how the hell those guys can say things like "You should give up you just don't have it"? I mean that's just so wrong and wing-cutting wtf. Those people's words are dealing with people's whole careers and their self-beliefs here. They should choose words more carefully than in any sphere of life maybe. I'm of a conviction we can do 95% of things as long as we have a dedication to be beter every day. "Every skill is learnable".
Anyway thanks for the life-affirming story!
Hope to see you in something great one day! )
Great interview. Tamsin was absolutely wonderful in Episodes.
she is a giant ear of niceness
The utterly brilliant Tamsin Greig. Fantastic. 😀
Always thought Tamsin had a unique & compelling beauty. As a straight woman, one of my few female crushes.
She is indeed a class act. Thanks for such a lovely interview 😊
Awesome. Thanks for your top show Rob always enjoy watching. Tamsin is wonderful in Black Books and Love Soup among many others.
"Hello, Fran....."
".... And now the shipping forecast...."
"You look Frantastic.”
Tamsin is worth the listen... cheers for uploading
The episodes hiking conversations are some of the funniest stuff.....
Great interview Rob. Tamsin is a brilliant guest! 😎🎸🤘
Thanks, Rob, for this super interview. I've been an admirer of Tamsin Greig since I saw her in JUMPY at the Royal Court Theatre. I knew she'd be a delightful person, too, and you've given me a chance to prove that right!
Brilliant, just got on me bike & now have this wonderfulness to help me through 🙋🏽♀️👍🏽💛
oh man, the cast in Black Books was a dream! And Tamsin among them.
Beautiful. Thanks Rob.
Tamsin is soooo pretty
Thank you!
What an incredible lady. Thank you so much for this video.
She is supremely brilliant, funny, unrecognisable as the Mum in Friday Night Dinner
@Rob Brydon
I auditioned for Central School and remember the trauma of the sifting process... finally being split into two groups - one that had got through and the one that hadn't. Terrifying! I got through and spent three wonderful years. Carrie Fisher was in the year above me, left in '77 and went straight into Star Wars.
'Green Wing' was one of my all-time favourite TV shows, followed by 'Episodes'!! I slowly fell in love with Tamsin - what an amazing actor. I'd love to work with either of you two, anything coming up? I'm a young 65... x
Only recently discovered Friday night dinner. She's brilliant 👏
I love that Rob will stitch up any of his guests while holding that smooth tv host timbre.
Loved this one, she's unique and whatever she's in you just can't imagine anyone else doing it. And, in Peter Serafinowicz sexy voice, she looks "Fran-tastic".
I loved Tamsin on The Archers. She has a very sexy voice.
Good one Rob! Nice way to maintain it.
Nice. I liked her slightly dippy character in Black Books.
Tamsin is awesome
You are both national treasures.
I love love love Tamsin, the queen of the second look.
Oh, I love Black Books!
She is just brilliant.
Love Tamsin.
ooh, how lovely
The classiest innuendos and jabbing😅
Everything Tamsin has done is wonderful, but for me the epitome is as Anne Trenchard in Belgravia. The sadness and anguish underlying that character, just sitting beneath the surface, is played with such dignity, which funnily enough is how she also does comedy. From Fran in BB to Caroline Todd in Green Wing, or Jackie in Friday Night Dinner, there's always a sense that beneath the situation there's a whole other world where she is thinking, really, is this it, why am I here? How did this happen? I could be doing something else, surely? In comedy this comes across as hilarious. In drama it's heartbreaking, but completely involving.
@AnMal 01 "The scenes between Tamsin Greig and Harriet Walter could be cut out and shown in a museum as great art." Perfectly put.
Ah Tamsin is every bit as lovely as I hoped she'd be however I do have a point of order. I myself have used the 'fall down seven times get up eight metaphor' on occasion and used it, only last year, on my now nearly seven year old grandson. He looked at me and said 'No Grandad you get up seven times'. And he's right you know🙂
I loved Tamsin Greig in Black Books.
She was also great in a great comedy show called Green Wing. Check it out .
He mentioned it
I think Tamsin would be a great contestant on Taskmaster
Rob is fantastic, Tamsin is amazing, but the full version of this on Spotify is one of the less wonderful interviews. Lots of awkward bits, not going with each others stories or picking up on each others humour - likely at times due to the delay in the call.
between you and me rob she my friend is a bit of a saucepot( a good looking woman)
Would you look at that! I think you could be my cousin! It's like looking in a mirror!
A nice bit of squirrel
How do you not get into RADA? They are supposed to teach you how to act. If you're shit at acting, they're your man. It's a school, not an award.
You'll be shocked to learn they don't take just anyone into any university or academy. I don't know anything about being a lawyer but that's not the actual qualification required for entry to law school..
great teeth
Sorry, not one of your finer moments Rob. Tamsin had so much more to say but you talked way too much and spoilt what was, potentially, a great chat. Disappointing 😔
I wish Ms Gregg had given up acting, she is so unbearably arch, pleased with herself and not nearly as funny as she and her agent clearly believes she is. Good face for radio though.
If you dislike her so much why watch this interview and why take up your precious time putting out such a negative and unnecessary comment?
@@gilliankirby I didn't watch the interview, I was referring to the tag line underneath. My time isn't precious and I've wanted to get my opinion about Greig off my chest for a while - she represents a form of smugness and entitlement that I have long resented. I can't be the only person who finds her irritatingly self-regarding ergo I wanted to give these people a voice, as is my right.
@@bristolspotlight6387 how incredibly altruistic of you
@@dielaughing73 One does one's best in the cause of truth, freedom and the American way.